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| Jack and the Beanstalk [Version 4] by James Barry |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. This is a British pantomime. The usual juxtapositions of gender are possible! The characters include a giant and a pantomime cow. |
| Run Time | Around 110 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for 11 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime. Song, dance, spectacle and all manner of comedy. |
| Synopsis | The kingdom is in thrall to Giant Plunder (an evil Ogre) and his wife. Poor Dame Trott and her sons Jack and Silly Billy are too poor to pay the rent. Forced to sell their family cow, Jack and Bill manage to exchange it for a mere handful of beans. A giant beanstalk ensues, and a raid on the Ogre's castle in the sky. Heroism and silliness abound! |
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| Jack and the Beanstalk [Version 5] by Jilly McNeil |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 30. Chorus. Unusually for Jack and the Beanstalk, it includes a cameo for Robin Hood and interruptions from four brownies. It also has the usual suspects, including buttercup the cow. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script contains suggestions for 15 songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British Pantomime. |
| Synopsis | While the Brothers Grimm prowl the village looking for another story to add to their collection, Jack goes to sell the family cow so he can pay Baron Tightfist's new taxes. Having swapped Buttercup for beans and grown a magic beanstalk, can he find fortune enough to marry? |
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| Jack and the Beanstalk [Version 6] by James Teacher |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. It's a pantomime. Make your own mind up as to which plays what. Includes a cow and a ghost. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for four songs (with new lyrics for two of them). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime. (Structurally in three acts.) |
| Synopsis | A new look at an old favourite, with some highly entertaining and surprising twists. All of the much loved characters are here along with, of course, the beanstalk which Jack climbs twice, encountering some unexpected friends in the ogres who are not quite what they seem. Lots of hilarity, comedy business and audience participation runs through the fast paced plot. With not one but two evil villains, in Ivor Lotacash and Aster La Vista along with their inept assistants Flip and Flop, plotting to evict his mum, Dame Potts, Jack has his work cut out. With the support of his true love Bella, Jack enlists the help of the ogres to thwart the baddies and all live happily ever after. |
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| Jack and the Beanstalk [Version 7] by Luke Reilly |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions are provided with the Producer's copy of the script Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length pantomime. |
| Synopsis | This is not the usual 'Jack and the Beanstalk' - but all the pantomime essentials are here. This version has a narrator and there is a cow and also multiple chickens - joining in all the fun, as the female giant is converted to love and the evil Baron Avarice is defeated. |
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| Jack and the Beanstalk [Version 8] by Julie Petrucci and Chris Shinn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 22. Chorus. Characters include a pantomime cow and a chicken called Henny. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] Timing assumes 12 two-minute songs. |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for eleven songs plus a reprise. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | British pantomime |
| Synopsis | The time-honoured tale of boy meets beans given a few added twists, not least from the local policeman, Constable Dunstable and a Trainee Community Police Officer (TCPO) and a pair of thieves. |
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Jack and the Beantin by Peter Bond
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Characters include the ubiquitous pantomime cow. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Three songs are suggested in the producer's copy of the script, with lyrics supplied for two of them (fitting well-known melodies). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Short British pantomimes. A cut-down version of the classic tale that includes a cut-down version of a giant! |
| Synopsis | When well-meaning Jack swaps the family cow for a tin of magic beans, he has no idea it'll lead to fortune and a family reunion! |
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| Jack and the Giant by Peter Nuttall |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Twenty-minute play for kids. |
| Synopsis | A brief telling of the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. Jack gets tricked into exchanging all his mother's weath for a handful of magic beans. The beans grow into a giant beanstalk which enables Jack to climb to the clouds and meet Giant Biggins...
One of Peter Nuttall's Grimm Tales (for Little Horrors) |
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| Jack and the Giant Beanstalk by Dave Jeanes |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. Principal boy assumed to be played by F, Dame by M. Characters include Clara the pantomime cow! |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] Run time around 1 hour without songs. |
| Music | Sixteen songs (and three reprises) suggested in the production notes (Producer's copy of the script). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | English Panto. Traditional pantomime characters. Jokes, silliness, magic beans and a pantomime cow. Relatively short script with lots of song suggestions (run time around an hour without songs). |
| Synopsis | The Spratt family can't pay the rent for their cottage and greedy Squire Trebormint is going to throw them out. There's nothing for it but to sell the family cow. Unfortunately, Jack swaps it for a handful of beans... Fortunately, they're magic and grow a beanstalk up to Cloudland. Unfortunately, there's a giant up there. Cue heroism, romance and green people... |
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| Jack and the Giant Beanstalk [Version 2] by Joe Laredo & Clare George |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 125 minutes. [Estimated!] Dependent on using all suggested songs. |
| Music | Song suggestions are provided with the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A full length pantomime with a good number of songs. |
| Synopsis | The familiar Jack and the Beanstalk storyline is reworked, with all the usual suspects joining in a fast paced and innovative plot. |
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| Jack in the Land of Nod by Sharon Hulm |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 36. Chorus. Characters include two pantomime dames, a fairy, and a whole range of cameos, including pirates, rats and a dog! |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for up to 20 songs, including original lyrics for two of them. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length British pantomime with an original story (a comic collision of lots of fairytale themes). |
| Synopsis | All is not well in the Land of Nod where the dreams of mortal men exist. King Rat is taking over with his band of dirty rats and if not stopped our dreams will become nightmares. The Fairie Queen, the ruler of the Land of Nod is losing her powers as few mortal children believe in fairies and needs the help of one who is true of heart. She calls upon Jack, who falls asleep a lot and has just lost his parent's farm for them and doesn't have any livestock to sell for magic beans. But the Fairie Queen is desperate (she must be) and beckons Jack into the Land of Nod. With the help of a pirate and his motley crew, can Jack's mission succeed and save the Land of Nod, especially when some of his stout hearted crew aren't quite what they pretend to be? |
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